| Step | Description | Photo
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| 1.
| Open the hood. Use a 10mm socket to unbolt the battery
connections (black ground first). Use a 13mm socket to
unbolt battery mount. Remove battery. Use an allen
driver to remove the bolt holding the power steering
reservoir to the battery tray.
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| 2.
| Unbolt the four 10mm bolts holding the battery tray in
place. Remove battery tray. Move power steering
reservoir out of the way. These two steps will give us the room
we need to do the work.
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| 3.
| You must support the engine before removing the
starter. Use an engine support bridge or use
a floor jack to support the weight of the engine. (This
is required -- the top starter bolt goes through the
engine mount).
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| 4.
| Unclip the connector on the starter (red arrow). Use
a 13mm socket to unbolt the starter terminal nut (yellow
arrow).
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| 5.
| Go underneath the car. The top bolt of the starter also
holds a bracket with a wiring harness on it. We need to
remove the 13mm bolt for this wiring harness first. Get
a long 13mm socket with a long extension (or two extensions).
Find the 13mm socket from underneath (yellow arrow).
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| 6.
| A second picture of the "hidden" 13mm nut with the
wiring harness in view. Socket and extension on the
nut (yellow arrow).
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| 7.
| Move the wiring harness out of the way. You should see
the 16mm bolt holding the top of the starter in.
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| 8.
| Again using a socket extension, unbolt the top 16mm bolt.
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| 9.
| Underneath the car is the second 16mm bolt holding the
starter on the transmission. There is a bracket for
the power steering line in the way -- you way want
to move it out of the way (it's held in place with a
17mm bolt through the transmission).
Unbolt the bottom 16mm starter bolt.
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| 10.
| Starter removed.
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| 11.
| Install new starter. Installation is the reverse of removal.
Torque starter mounting bolts to 47Nm (44 ft-lb)
Reinstall wiring harness 13mm bolt. Reattach wires to starter.
Reinstall battery tray, reinstall battery. Done!
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